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When your network of retail locations expands, how do you keep up with all the data that needs to be exchanged between stores, vendors, and other trading partners? At some point, the only solution becomes to automate file transfers. See how Grocery Outlet made the transition with GoAnywhere.

Grocery Outlet is a family-owned company established to provide inexpensive groceries to its customers. It’s now the largest deep-discount grocery store chain in America, with more than 200 stores in seven states. Many of these stores are owned and operated by local families to serve their neighborhood’s needs, and the company keeps growing.

Between sharing data with store owners and communicating with vendors, Grocery Outlet exchanges more than 30,000 files every day. Steve Tuscher, the Director of IT, realized that having his staff write manual scripts for these file exchanges was time consuming enough, but tracking down and fixing problems when files didn’t arrive at their intended destinations was the last straw.

He began looking for a solution that would automate file transfers and provide better error reporting, and after discovering some high-priced options, he decided to take a look at GoAnywhere.

“We quickly replaced all of our internal FTP scripts and within a couple of months, we’d transformed our data delivery across all of our business partners and all our internal systems with GoAnywhere,” Tuscher said. “We were surprised that we were able to do that as quickly and easily as we did.”

To hear more about Grocery Outlet’s success with GoAnywhere, and to find out which feature the team found most valuable in transforming the way they managed their workflows, be sure to watch the video. You can also read the transcript here.

Have you ever been asked to email a file that includes personal information like your prescription records, or your banking account information, or even your social security number? Many people share that kind of information over the internet and simply hope that it doesn’t get hacked.

Linoma Software, developer of the enterprise solution GoAnywhere™ Managed File Transfer Suite, has made it much easier to keep this kind of confidential data protected with its recently released desktop encryption tool called GoAnywhere OpenPGP Studio™.

This free PC tool is designed for people who occasionally need to share or store sensitive data. OpenPGP Studio lets users encrypt, decrypt, sign and verify files from their PCs or workstations. An integrated key manager allows anyone to quickly create, import, export and manage OpenPGP keys needed to encrypt and decrypt files. Best of all, it’s intuitive so even those who claim to be “non-technical” can confidently use OpenPGP Studio.

Here’s a video, also available on YouTube, that shows just how easy OpenPGP Studio is to use.

You can download OpenPGP Studio from the GoAnywhere website, and then let us know what you think! If you need a more robust solution that includes automation, check out the GoAnywhere suite of products.

System Administrator Amy Hoerle has spent much of her career writing custom FTP scripts, so when she first started at Think Mutual Bank, she was a little surprised to find that GoAnywhere was already handling many of their file transfer processes.

“GoAnywhere was always there and always running,” she said. “Before, if I had to write a script, there were so many things that could go wrong that I’d have to check for. Now, I can automate all of it and make it simple with GoAnywhere, things that would take me a lot of time elsewhere.”

For more about how Think Mutual Bank uses GoAnywhere to manage file transfers, handle encryption, translate data formats, and more, watch this video interview we did at the 2013 COMMON User’s Conference.

It’s Friday, heading into a long overdue holiday weekend, so we thought we’d share a video we recently posted that highlights how Lorraine Callahan, a senior programmer analyst with United Security Life and Health, has implemented GoAnywhere to improve workflow and save time.